Registration & Solution Showcase
Check out the key industry partners such as Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Sun Microsystems who will be at the launch event to showcase their solutions and technologies
9.30am - 11.30am
Keynote Session
Welcome Address by Barney Lau, Managing Director, Microsoft Singapore
Keynote speaker
Bill Hilf
, General Manager, Windows Server Marketing and Platform Strategy will discuss how Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008 provides a secure and trusted platform to build next-generation web applications, virtualize your infrastructure, and make better business decisions. Attendees will also hear from early adopters who have made the move to this new platform and key industry partners - Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Sun Microsystems, on how their solutions can better support your business on this new platform.
Finally, we'll also pay tribute to the unsung IT Heroes of Singapore - developers, users, administrators, and other IT professionals - as they share their stories of trials, technology, and triumph.
11.30am - 1.00pm
Lunch Break & Solution Showcase (Lunch on personal expense)
1.15pm - 2.00pm
Track 1: Application and Data Management Track
(for IT Professionals)
Track 2: Infrastructure Track
(for IT Professionals)
Track 3: Developer Track (for Developers)
Run mission critical applications on SQL Server 2008
Attend this session to learn how new enhancements in SQL Server 2008 provides you with the highest levels of availability, protects your business critical data and scales across growing data volumes and mixed workloads. This session provides an overview of the new security, scalability, performance and availability features in SQL Server 2008.
Windows Server Virtualization Technologies
The new Windows Server Virtualization technology, Hyper-V, and updated presentation virtualization technology, Terminal Services, are core features in Windows Server 2008. This session will provide you an overview of the virtualization technologies in Windows Server 2008, the scenarios, features, benefits and how they deliver real value. Management of your virtual infrastructure is critical for improving the overall efficiency of your IT environment, this session will also cover how our management technologies enhance the core Hyper-V and Terminal Services scenarios to make your datacenter a dynamic and flexible IT platform.
Breakthrough software development challenges with Visual Studio 2008
Explore all new Visual Studio 2008 features, from language enhancements; improved designers; Web and smart-client development tools; to Visual Studio Team System, a suite of software lifecycle management tools poised to transform how you deliver software for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and the Web.
Speaker(s)
Simon Piff
Regional Solutions Manager - Asia Pacific
Microsoft Asia Pacific
Avanade
William Tay
Solution Specialist - Application Platform, Microsoft Singapore
Speakers(s)
David Lowe
Senior Product Manager
Microsoft Corp
Speakers(s)
Norman Guadagno
Director of Product Marketing for Visual Studio Team System
Microsoft Corp
2.00pm - 2.45pm
SQL Server 2008 Manageability
Attend this session to learn Attend this session to learn about the new manageability improvements in SQL server 2008 that enables you to administer, monitor and maintain your data platform infrastructure while reducing the time and cost of management. This session provides an overview of the new manageability improvements that enables you to manage the infrastructure with policies, monitor and optimize your platform with insights and relevant information and scale your management across multiple servers.
Windows Server Web Application Technologies
Find out how your business can benefit from deploying Windows Server 2008 with Internet Information Services 7.0 for all of your web server needs. Explore the new modular architecture and configuration system that allow you to streamline the web server to meet your business needs. Learn more about the suite of management tools, rapid troubleshooting feature and expanded application framework support that will save you time and effectively lower your operating expenses
Defy occasionally connected challenges with smart client applications
This session introduces the new features and improvements introduced in Visual Studio 2008 for smart client development. This session introduces new client services that allow your applications to authenticate users providing role-based UI, and be occasionally connected with offline data storage. We demonstrate how you can leverage both Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Forms in a single application to build the right experience for your customer. Finally, we show feedback-driven improvements to existing features in Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, and ClickOnce.
Speakers(s)
Quoc Bui
Sr product Technical Specialist - Application Servers
Microsoft Singapore
Edwin Sarmiento
(Consultant Trainer)
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
David Foo
Incubation Storage Specialist - Data Protection
Microsoft Asia Pacific
Speakers(s)
Quest Software and
MVP
Sarbjit Singh Gill
Microsoft Consultant - Asia Pacific
Speakers(s)
Norman Guadagno
Director of Product Marketing for Visual Studio Team System
Microsoft Corp
2.45pm - 3.30pm
SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence platform
Attend this session to learn how the new enhancements in SQL server 2008 provide a comprehensive and scalable Business Intelligence platform that enables you to integrate and manage your growing data volumes, comprehensive analysis and enterprise reporting, and deliver insights through Microsoft Office System. This session provides an overview of the new data warehousing, reporting, analysis and integration features in SQL Server 2008.
Windows Server 2008 Security & Compliance Technologies
Windows Server 2008 offers rich capabilities for securing your IT Infrastructure and proving tools to ease with compliance mandates. This session will discuss the Windows security and compliance features such as Network Access Protection, Right Management Services, and Active Directory Federation Service. subsystem, why auditing is important and how to configure an audit policy updated Windows Server 2008 event subsystem
Microsoft's Web Platform Overview: Your Next Web Now
Learn how Microsoft's platform helps you create great user experiences, optimize your current web investments, and grow your business. An overview of the tools, technologies, servers, and services that help you get ahead of the competition by improving your ability to attract, engage, and excite customers online.
Speakers(s)
Han Kanke Loke
Solution Specialist - Application Platform, Microsoft Singapore
Speakers(s)
Lee Lup Yuen
Principal Consultant
NCS Group
3.30pm - 4.00pm
Break
4.00pm - 5.30pm
4.00pm - 4.30pm
Microsoft & Cisco Vision for Optimizing IT Services in the Branch
Cisco and Microsoft have been building IT solutions for the branch for more than 15 years. In this latest development, the two companies have developed a joint solution which allows organization to optimize both their Capex and Opex budgets and not sacrifice any service agility and performance.
4.00pm - 4.45pm
Building High Availability Infrastructure with Windows Server 2008 Clustering
Be the very first to learn about how IBM System x is supporting Windows Server 2008 in terms of achieving High Availability with new and improved clustering architecture. We will give you an overview of the IBM Bladecenter and High End Systems differentiators and how IBM and Microsoft is working together to deliver more robust scalable 640way x86 platforms for your organization's infrastructure needs. At the same time, show how all these systems can be easily managed via IBM Director, centralized systems mnagement, which ships Free with all IVM machines.
4.00pm - 4.45pm
Reach End-Users With Next Generation Web Applications
Visual Studio 2008 enables developers and IT operators to dramatically reduce the amount of time, effort and code required to develop and deploy real-world Web applications. ASP.NET 3.5, Visual Studio 2008 and IIS 7 each provide much improved administration and management support, on top of dramatically improved performance. Also covered is support for ASP.NET AJAX, JavaScript enhancements, rich support for CSS standards and rapid development of data-bound Web pages.
Speakers
CiscoBernard Trudel
Head of Technology, Data Center,
Cisco Systems - Asia Pacific
Speakers
Jimmy Chin
Advanced Technical Consultant
IBM
Speakers
4.30pm - 5.00pm
Driving Productivity with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
Attend this session to learn about the Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Customer Relationship Management) that enables you to maximize your business potential.. This session provides insights into the strategy behind the design of an business and users friendly CRM systems that works the way you work, works the way your business does and works the way technology should.
4.45pm - 5.30pm
Applications Anywhere, with Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services
Remote programs seamlessly integrate Terminal Services (TS) applications into the local desktop environment making them indistinguishable from locally executing applications. This presentation describes deployment options for Remote Programs and analyzes them in terms of the value they bring to the Enterprise. Topics covered: TS WebAccess, TS Remote Programs, Intranet & Internet deployments
Speakers(s)
Simon Tung
Microsoft Dynamics Manager
Microsoft Singapore
Speakers(s)
Citrix
5.00pm - 5.30pm
Build data applications with SQL Server 2008
Attend this session to learn about the enhancements in Microsoft Data platform that enables developers and administrators to build and deploy the next generation data applications. This session provides you with an overview of how SQL Server 2008, the .NET platform and Visual Studio enables you to build data logic faster with the new T-SQL enhancements, deploy applications on any type of data from spatial to documents and on any device and while accessing the data easily with LINQ, ADO.Net Entity framework and Data Services.
Speakers(s)
Quoc Bui
Sr product Technical Specialist - Application Servers
Microsoft Singapore
